Posted on 03/30/2024 7:32:31 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
You’re wrong.
1) HAZMAT trucks CANNOT use the Harbor Tunnel. They have to go 3/4 of the way the long way, clockwise, using the Baltimore Beltway (695). That’s ...roughly 40 miles. In what is heavy traffic anyway.
2) With the ship down, a lot of the port is blocked and ships can’t go in and out.
3) One has to check to see what happened to the channel dredged for ships in the vicinity of bridge.
4) The bridge/wreck is also right over a high pressure underground gas line. Be extra careful digging.
I would have approaches and ramps in construction - plenty of crushed rock and stuff is available.
RO-RO ships available.
Ferry boats:
https://horizonship.com/ship-category/passenger-vessels-for-sale/high-speed-ferries-for-sale/
Take the fainting and hanky waving by the media.
Divide by ten.
That is the actual disruption caused by the bridge collapse.
Have you ever been in a big city on water or on a big river that is building or repairing interstate freeway bridges over the water?
They’ll clear the water in days.
Life goes on.
believe it is the Corp of Engineers that is in charge of clearing the channel. They brought the cranes in.
The port will be open for vessels before you know it. And they will think of additional mitigation to get the traffic moving. Patience!! We will survive.
We need some betting...I’m going for April 10th....open for vessels....700 ft wide swath cleared...
In the great Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising he mentioned the drawbacks of the Soviet system’s reliance on a small number of really big concentrations of production centers for trucking, batteries, weapons, food processing, merchandise warehousing and so on. Left them vulnerable if one was knocked out or burned up. Better to have lots of spread out variety.
I remember the US newsmagazine article “George Steinbrenner, Welfare Client.” Because no one else could build submarines and large warships for replacement of the aging US fleet, the US needed the one large shipbuilding center in Florida, owned by the billionaire NY Yankee co-owner who had been losing money on it. He was bailed out and we got our ships.
“The Baltimore Bridge Collapse Is Going To Have An Enormous Impact On U.S. Supply Chains”
No. An impact? Yes. Enormous? No. Most of the issue will be adjusted with some additional costs for some truck shipments heading from or going to points south of Baltimore, but not so much for shipments heading west or north of Baltimore, as for them directly there are alternatives to the bridge, which heading to or from the north or west they were likely already using.
I would only be wrong about where HAZMAT risk trucks get rerouted. I knew they couldn’t go through the tunnels, but I am not familiar with Baltimore enough to know which routes they would have to take.
It would be longer than 40 minutes because of all that additional traffic that will be going the same way.
Baltimore was a parking lot over 20 years ago.
I can’t believe it has improved with time.
I know. My point was that you can incentivize expedient work. I wasn’t trying to suggest this could be done as quickly as the atlanta collapse.
This will be a re-engineering effort. Atlanta was a “here are the old plans…. Replace these spans.”
In a related story didn’t Sleepy Joe tell us he was going to build a rail road to China?
How’s that going?
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